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Spartan01 · 02-12-2015, 02:56 PM

Mod (subculture)

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A photograph of two mid-1960s mods on a customised scooter

Mod is a 1960s British youth subculture that was revived in later decades and continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of London-based stylish young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz.[1]
Significant elements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits); music (including soul, ska, and R&B); and motor scooters (usually Lambretta or Vespa). The original mod scene was associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing at clubs.[2]
Mods engaged in brawls with rockers in the 1960s, which led to many news articles.[3] The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to coin the term moral panic in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics,[4] which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s.[5]
There was a mod revival in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, which was followed by a mod revival in North America in the early 1980s, particularly in Southern California, Vancouver, and Toronto, Canada.[6][7]

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Spartan01 Drives: Evil Eva, 2010 2SS LS3 Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Falls Church, Virginia Posts: 3,600	Mod (subculture) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Mod (disambiguation). A photograph of two mid-1960s mods on a customised scooter Mod is a 1960s British youth subculture that was revived in later decades and continues today on a smaller scale. Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of London-based stylish young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz.[1] Significant elements of the mod subculture include fashion (often tailor-made suits); music (including soul, ska, and R&B); and motor scooters (usually Lambretta or Vespa). The original mod scene was associated with amphetamine-fuelled all-night dancing at clubs.[2] Mods engaged in brawls with rockers in the 1960s, which led to many news articles.[3] The mods and rockers conflict led sociologist Stanley Cohen to coin the term moral panic in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics,[4] which examined media coverage of the mod and rocker riots in the 1960s.[5] There was a mod revival in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, which was followed by a mod revival in North America in the early 1980s, particularly in Southern California, Vancouver, and Toronto, Canada.[6][7] http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...14,317_AL .jpg http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV..._SX214_AL .jpg __________________ "You simply cannot trust quotes found on the internet." -Abraham Lincoln Last edited by Spartan01; 02-12-2015 at 03:22 PM.